Eating down goes on and on and on....

The Farmer's market was a challenge this morning. Everywhere I looked I though "Oh, I'll just get that." But, i was good and I really stuck to my plan of buying only milk (half gallon of 2%) and rhubarb.

Because I still had some rhubarb left from last week that I wanted to use up, I decided to make a variation on a bread pudding. For this, I used:

4 thin stalks of rhubarb
1 apple (I found a decent one in the refrigerator)
splenda
5 eggs
1 cup milk
honey
brown sugar
3 slices cinnamon raisin bread
whole wheat flour
cinnamon

I chopped the rhubarb and apple and put them in a5 qt casserole with some splenda and about 1/2 cup of water and put that into the microwave for 3 minutes
While that was in the microwave, I mixed all the ingredients except the bread and flour together.
Once the fruits mix was done, I sprinkled about 1/3 bup of whole wheat flour on it and ripped up the bread slices and layered them on top.
I poured the liquid mix over the fruit and bread layers and baked in the oven at 350 for about an hour.

It ends up being kind of sweet and custardy.
With my housemate's help, this week, I have managed to finish off the following items from my list of the other day:
lentils
cauliflower
one jar of honey
bananas
chicken thighs
bread (which I notice wasn't even on the list but the rye bread is gone now too)
brown sugar
rhubarb (which has been replaced)
the almost empty tub of margarine


I still have to work on that heap of lettuce but it should be gone in a few days.

Tonight's dinner will be a big salad with something that I haven't decided on yet. I still have tortillas but may save those for lunches this week with the tuna and/or sardines. Maybe one of the prepared Indian packets will work. I've been trying to get my housemate to eat the frozen pizzas but he isn't going for it.

This brings up an interesting point. Most of the budget guidelines suggest that families and couples can eat for less than a single person can. I can see that this would be true if everyone is willing to eat the same thing. In my household, my partner and I have very different diets. mine is primarily vegetarian with meat at a couple dinners a week. His is primarily carnivorous and he never eats vegetables or anything spicy or unusual. Trust me, there have been more than a few occasions when I've freaked out over his food choices. But what this means is that we are each pretty much eating like single people.
He will eat things like the bread pudding above or oatmeal with fruit in it but he won't touch my salad or bean dishes ever. As a result, I get no real benefit from having two people in the house unless I compromise my diet to meet his.